Eye set for dolls and the like



S. MARCUS.

EYE SET FOR DOLLS AND THE LIKE.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 26. 1921.

Patented (M. 31, 19221.

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Fatented SAMUEL MARCUS, F BROOKLYN, NEW YQEK, ASSIGNOB TO I. & H. NOVELTY $0., mil, @F H YQRK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

EYE SET FOR DOLLS THE L as:

To all whom it may camera:

Be it known that I SAMUEL MARCUS, a citizen of the United tates, and a resident of Broolzl n, in the county of Kings and State of ew York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Eye Sets for Dolls and the like, of which thefollow in% is a specification.

he invention ertains to artificial eyes for dolls, display g ures and the like, and it consists in the nove features hereinafter described, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

@ne object of my invention is to provide improved means whereby lass eyes may be suitably supported and aliwed their rockin movement within the heads of dolls, and a urther object of the invention'is to provide eye-supportin means which will permit of the indepen ent angular adjustment of the eyes Within their holding members and the adjustment of the eyes toward and from each other to meet the re uirements of the eye-sockets in the head of t e doll.

lit has been found difiicult to pro erly' support fragile glass eyes within the ead of a doll in such manner as to preserve the due relation of the eyes to 'the eye-sockets and at the same time permit of the rolling action of the eyes in accordance with the movement of the doll; and difficulty has also been found in suitably connecting the fragile glass-eyes of a pair of eyes with the bridge construction of the eye-set, from which a weight is ordinarily suspended. My invention is designed to afford suitable means for connecting the glass eyes to form an eye-set and for so mounting the eyes that that they may be independently angularly adjusted and also adjusted with relation to each other. A special feature of m invention resides in the means I provide or holding the individual fragile eyes and permitting of their adjustment, with an avoidance of danger of fracturing the eyes and without any necessity for cutting or in any manner treating the eyes to adapt them to their holding means.

The mvention and satisfactory means for carrying the same into'efiect will be fully understood from the detailed description hereinafter presented, reference being had. to the accompanying drawings, in which:

Fig. 1 is a vertical section through the face of a doll and eye mechanism embodying the essential features of invention, the section through the eye mecanisrn being on the dotted line 1-1 of Fig. 2;

Fig. 2 is a horizontal section through the eye-set, taken on the dotted line 2-2 of Fig 1;

1g. 3 is a central vertical section through one ortion of the eye-set, taken on the dot ted me 3-3 of Fig. 2;

Fig. 4 is a detached perspective view of a clip forming a part of the eye-set mechanism, said clip being utilized as a means for connecting a rocker-plate or tongue with the bridge-piece which connects the two eyes to form a pair of eyes;

Fig. 5 is a rear elevation, partly broken away, of the eye-set, and

Fig. 6 is a detached perspective view of a form of hanger plate which may be utilized for supporting the eye-set as a substitute for the hanger-plate shown in Figs. 1 and 5.

In the drawings, 10 designates the face portion of the head of a doll, and 11, 12, respectively, denote the right eye and left eye for the doll. llhe eyes 11, 12 are of corresponding construction and are hollow and of lass and as ordinarily made have, at the,

bac of the eyes, a hollow stem portion 13, this stem portion resulting from the ordinary methods of manufacturing the e es. The eyes 11, 12 are mounted in special ho ders 14, of corresponding construction, and these holders are adjustably held upon the bridgepiece 15, which consists of a strip of spring metal of sufficient thinness to yieldingly press the eyes 11, 12 against the sockets therefor in the face of the doll, thereby maintaining the eyes in proper relation to said sockets, while at the same time permitting the eyes to have their proper rolling action due to the inclination or change of position of the doll.

. The spring bridge-piece 15 I regard as very important in maintaining the proper relation of the eyes 11, 12, to the eye-sockets in the dolls face. The bridge-piece 15 is of rectangular cross sectionand may conveniently maintain the holders 14in fixed relation thereto. The holders 14 are of s ecial formation and each is refera ly formed in one integral piece of s set metal stamped out to provide a base or cup-like member 16, two side arms 17, and a backsleeve 18 which is central at the back of the cup members 16 and of a shape to snugly re- -ceive the end portions of the bridge-piece 15,

as may be seen in Fig. 3. The sleeve or loop 18 closely engages the rear face of the bridge-piece 15 and also the upper and lower edges of said bridge-piece, and the bridgepiece outside of the sleeves or loops 18 has a flat bearing against the base members 16, and these several features of construetion result in the holders 14 being evenly secured upon the bridge-piece 15 and in said holders being so firmly held that they have no rocking movement on said bridge-piece. The sleeves or loops 18 being fiat end the bridge piece being end engaging the flat ends of the cup 16, make it unnccessa to provide v additional means for evoi ing the rocking of the eyes on the liridgepiece. The holders 1% may be spaced sport on the bridge-piece 15 to meet such requirements as iney exist with reference to irregularities in dolls heads, and the sleeves or loops 18 so snugly lit the loridgepiece 15 that it is unnecessary to provide any means for fastening said sleeves or loops to ssid hridge iece, the holders 1e retaining their adjusted position on said bridge-piece during the spplication of the eyes to the dolls heed. if anyone should desire to do so however, the sleeves or loops 18 may be rigidly fastened to the bridge-piece 15 by some shellac or solder or other means.

One important feature of my invention resides in the spring bridge-piece 15 with the holders 14 adapted to receive the eyes and to be secured upon the end portions of the bridge-piece in the manner l have just described. Another important feature of my invention relstes to the holders 14 in themselves These holders M form sockets to re ceive and permit of the angular adjustment of the eyes 11 i2, and said holders are adapted to receive and retain said eyes without any special treatment of the eyes themselves or the provision of any additional means for securing the eyes within snidholders. The side arms 17 with which holder 1 is equipped extends forwardly be yond the transverse center of the eyes and are reasonably broad, as shown by the dotted lines in Fig. 3, and are made concave on their facing sides so as to leap upon a fairly considerable portion of the convex surface of the eyes. The arms l? he sprung out to receive the eyes, and they closely engage the eyes without fracturing them and without interfering with the eyes being independently adjusted about their axes so that the iris portion of the eye may be adjusted upwardly or downwardiy or toward the right or toward the left, as oocasion may require. The holders M ore each in e, single piece, and these holders re-,

ceive the eyes 11, 12 just as said eyes are manufactured and without either cutting them or equipping them with secured holding means, said holders being adapted to receive the eyes 'ust as they are manufactured and properly old them in due relation to each other for the purpose of providing an eye-set. The holders 14 dispense with complicated features which have been heretofore utilized for holding glass eyes and provide very simple means for efficiently holding the eyes and permitting of their angular adjustment, while at the same time said holders also permit by their adjustment on the bridge-piece 15, of the correct spacing apart of the eyes 11, 12,

The bridge-piece 15 is held upon 2. rockerplate or tongue 19 by means of a clip 20, the

rear end or said plate 19 being inserted through an opening 21 in the bridge-piece l5, and said clip 20 losing secured upon said plate 19 and having rear flanged edges 22 adspted to he closed upon the upper and lower edges of the bridge-piece 15, as shown in l. clip 20 is a folded piece of sheet motel lievin at its forward edge a slot 23 through which the plate or tongue 19 is passed end'said clip 20 is finally secured to the piste or tongue 19 by spot welding, as indicate by lines at 24%. Before the clip 20 is fastened permanently to the rocker plate tongue 19, said clip and liridge-piece 15 are sdjusted along said plate 19 to suit the conditions the eye-sockets in the head of the doll said plate 19 permitting the bridge 15 to be adjusted toward or from the face of the doll as the conditions may require prior to, the securing of said clip and bridge-piece in rigid relation to the plate 19 loy means of the spot welding 24 or such other means of securing the parts together as may he adopt ed The plate or tongue 19 is a plain fiat bar, as shown, 1nd at forwerd side edges is formed trnnnions or studs 25 which have s. searing in apertures formed in the side cars 26 or the hanger plate 27, said plate 2? or known construction and adapted to he secrred'within the forehead portion of the dolls need by shellac or other cementitious risteriul Q8 as usual. The engagement of the lower end of the hanger piste 2'2 loy means of the ears 26 with the studs 55 serves l no suspend the eye-set from said hanger end also to permit the plate 19 to hove resizing motion due to changing positions of fine doll and which rocking motion is communicated through the bridge 1 15 to the eyes Ill, 12. il'le plate 19 is formed with en opming 29 inst in rear of its front edge and through this opening the upper end oi'tlie weight rod 30 is passed and carried around the front edge of said plate 19, as shown in Fig. 1, thereby firmly suslpending the weight rod 30 and its weight 31 from the front edge of the rocker plate 19. When the dolls head .is in the posi-- tion shown in i the iris of the eyes will face frontwardly and the weight 31 will become arrested at the chin ortion of the head of the doll. If the dol should be reclined rearwardly, the weight 31 will move in a direction toward the back of the neck of the dolls head and roll, through the plate 19 and bridge 15, the eyes 11, 12 tosleeping or closed position. When the doll is again restored to vertical position, the weight 31, acting through the rocker-plate 19, will restore the eyes to normal or open position.

The rocker-plate 19 is important in permitting the convenient adjustment of the bridge-piece 15 toward and from the face of of the doll and is also of importance in transmitting the action of the weight 31 to the eyes 11, 12. The parts of the e e-set have een constructed with the view 0% conveniently obtaining all of the adjustments necessary to adapt the eye-sets to the varyin conditions to be found in dolls heads, said heads presenting irregularities with respect to the eye-sockets therein and the eyes 11, 12 requiring adjustment to meet the conditions of said heads regardless of what they may be. The parts of the eye-set of my invention have been designed for efiicient operation and durable and simple constructlon. In applying the eyes to the head of a doll, the adjustment of the clip 20 on the rocking plate or tongue 19 may be utilized to place a proper tension in the ends of the bridge 15 tending to yieldingly press the eyes 11, 12 against the eye-sockets in the dolls head.

In Fig. 1 ll illustrate the hanger 27 as being a single hanger to be secured to the inner forehead of the dolls head. I also make these hangers double so that one end may be secured to the inner forehead of the dollshead and the lower end thereof to the face of the doll somewhere about the mouth Or lips, and this double form of hanger is well known and a specimen of which I illustrate in Fig. 6.

It is usual, after the eyes of an eye-set have been individually angularly ad usted and have been properly spaced apart on their bridge connections, to form imitation upper eye llds on the eyes,so that when the doll is reclined the eyes on rolling toward the front and downwardly may carry said lids across the eye-sockets in the head of the doll and convey the impression of the doll being asleep, and usually said imitation lids are formed by dipping the up or and rear portions of the e e-set in fies -tinted coloring matter and allowing the color to harden. In the case of my invention the said eye-lids may be formed as usual and the coloring matter into which the eye-set is dipped for the production of the eye-lids will coat over portions of the holders 14 and serve to cement the eyes in said holders and said holders on the ends of the bridge 15.

The invention presented in this application embodies certain features of the eyeset made the subject of my application for Letters Patent filed November 24, 1920, and also certain improvements in said eye-set having reference more particularly to the brid e construction and to the holders for the individual eyes.

What I claim as m to secure by Lettersatent, is:

1. An eye-set for dolls and the like, comprising a pair of artificial eyes, a bridge connecting the eyesand being a strip of spring metal adapted at its ends to yiel inglypress the individual eyes against the eye sockets in "the head of a doll, a hanger plate to be secured within the head of a doll, a rocker-plate pivotally connected with said hanger and having a weight suspended from its forward end, and a clip secured on said rocker-plate and having and members engaging and overlapping the upper and lower edges of said bridge for securin the bridge to said rocker late, said clip an said bridge having openings in them through which said rocker plate is passed and which admit of the adjustment of said bridge and the eyes carried thereb with relation to the face of the dolls hea 2. An eye-set for dolls and the like, com prising a pair of artificial eyes, a bridge connecting the eyes, a hanger plate to be secured within the head of a doll, a rockerplate pivotally connected with said hanger and having a weight suspended from its forward end and a clip secured on said rocker-plate and having end members engaging and overlapping the upper and lower edges of said bridge for securin the bridge to said rocker plate, said clip an said bridge having openings in them through which said rocker late is passed and which ad mit of the a justment of said bridge and the invention and desire 1 eyes carried thereby with relation to the I face of the dolls head.

- 3. An eye-set for dolls and the like, comhead of the doll, and holders on said bridge for said eyes, said holders each comprisin a base portion engaged with said bridge a having arms extending forwardly beyond the transverse center of the eyes and engaging the sides of and confining the eyes, said arms permitting said eyes to be adjusted angularly to the right or left and upwardly or downwardly, as may be necessary.

4. An eye-set for dolls and thelike, comprising a pair of artificial eyes, a bridge connecting and supporting said eyes, means pivotally supporting said bridge within the head of the doll, and holders on said bridge for said eyes, said holders each comprisin a base portion having a loop slid upon said a. a. 0i carved a a ex a: ding forwardly beyond the transverse center of the e es'and engaging the sides of and confining t e eyes, said arms permitting said eyes to be adjusted angularly to the right or left and upward? or downwardly, as may be necessary.

5. n eye-set for dolls and the like, vcomprising a pair of artificial e as, a bridge connesting and supporting sai eyes, means pivotally supporting said bridge within the head of the doll, and holders on said bridge for said eyes, said holders each being in one piece of sheet metal and comprising a cup masses base portion having a loop to slide on said bridge and arms extending forwardly beyond the transverse center of the e es and 15 SAMUEL MARCUS.

gned at New York city, in the county of 20 

